Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
Alberta Hunter

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
George Carman

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.
Jacopo Sannazaro

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.
Napoleon Hill

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.
Herbie Mann

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we’re complicit.
Shelley Morrison

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
Steven Wright

We plough the sand on the sea shore.
Juvenal

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake

Give me sun, sand, sea, and whatever else any day!
Michelle Clack

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Apothegms are, in history, the same as the pearls in the sand, or the gold in the mine
Gerard Didier Erasmus

Perfection!
Almost everyone will like to attain perfection, but we all know how hard it is to be there. See what some wise people have said about perfection.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
François Voltaire

No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers.
Unknown

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix

When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.
Geoffrey F. Fisher

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.
Unknown

Perfectionism is slow death.
Hugh Prather

Nobody is perfect and I am nobody, so I am perfect.
Unknown

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman

Actually, I can’t imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Hugh Mackay

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
Sri Chinmoy

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. Salinger

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Safire

But democracy isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Antonio Tabucchi

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Kathy Mattea

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
Chinese Proverb

Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
William Shawn

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion

Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
Kelly Millar

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection.
Michael Jackson

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Thomas Carlyle

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.
Jessie Matthews

I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Reese Witherspoon

It is absurd to look for perfection.
Camille Pissarro

My ambition is peace and perfection.
DeForest Kelley

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Jeremy Bentham

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
Douglas Horton

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Kim Collins

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
Agnetha Faltskog

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris West

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Kahlil Gibran

The freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
Colin Powell

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye

Stress is an important dragon to slay – or at least tame – in your life.
Marilu Henner

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Britney Spears

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
Hans Selye

God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.
Kelly Clarkson

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
Christopher Shays

I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Martin Short

Stress is poison.
Agavé Powers

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
Placido Domingo

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
Sylvia Plath

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Andrew Denton

The field of consciousness is tiny.  It accepts only one problem at a time.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Today’s accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it’s diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.
Mary Ann Mobley

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.
Jenny Craig

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
Janet Street-Porter

The key to winning is poise under stress.
Paul Brown

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Ovid

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
Unknown

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.
Carin Hartness

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
Horace

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Isabelle Holland

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.
Ovid

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.
Alan Cohen

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Titus Maccius Plautus

There is no such thing as collective guilt.
Kurt Waldheim

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Aurelius Augustine

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand

He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
Anon

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
Horace Bushnell

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
Voltaire

Guilt is always jealous.
John Ray

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ~
Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Ayn Rand,

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
Edward Young

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
Alexander Chase

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.
George Sand

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

Here are some famous inspirational quotes on revolution…

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton

Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there’s only one, and that’s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg

The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.
H. Rap Brown

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
Herman Gorter

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg Buchner

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
Ernest Mandel

We’re in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
James Levine

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert Camus

Revolutions are not made; they come.
Wendell Phillips

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel Castro

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton

It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief.
Japanese Proverb

Pride comes before a fall.
Proverb

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
François de la Rochefoucauld

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Benjamin Franklin

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
Benjamin Franklin

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Thomas Jefferson

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot

I look upon pride as a sin.
Tommy Lee Jones

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
Ray Kroc

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
Albert J. Nock

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
Steve Kanaly

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
Anthea Turner

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.
Roger Miller

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
Christopher Dodd

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
Johnny Rotten

It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Francesca Annis

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
Warren G. Bennis

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
Jack Nicholson

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim Carrey

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings

It’s a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
Jeff Foxworthy

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming

It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
Drew Barrymore

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes

This life is a process of learning.
Lauryn Hill

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson

In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Audre Lorde

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
William Congreve

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George Lucas

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine

It’s hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I’ve already bungled it.
Tina Weymouth

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis

Belief gets in the way of learning.
Jeremy Collier

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
Arthur Hailey

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert

It’s not the teaching, it’s the learning.
Sly Stone

Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.
Tony Buzan

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald McLeish

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham

Out of too much learning become mad.
Robert Burton

I grow old learning something new every day.
Solon

It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.
Patty Berg

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor

Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever.
Chinese Proverb

When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed